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Donald Trump made another desperate attempt to win back suburban voters. And the classist, racist undertones couldn’t be ignored. On Wednesday, the president returned to Twitter to celebrate the repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law—an Obama-era regulation that aimed to combat racial discrimination. Trump told suburbanites that his decision to rescind the rule meant […]
On Tuesday afternoon the New York City Housing Authority tweeted out praise to the Shawn Carter Foundation, as well as Jack Dorsey’s Start Small Foundation, after using “a generous donation” from those charities to purchase supermarket gift cards for residents in the Marcy, Sumner, and Tompkins housing projects. For background (since it’s a pretty brief tweet) in […]
Due to the large-scale coronavirus restrictions, countless people have been put out of work and are unable to afford necessities, like groceries, utilities, and, perhaps their largest expense, rent. We’ve seen that as the crisis becomes increasingly severe, more and more Americans have been overcome with financial anxiety, wondering how they’ll be able to pay their landlords once […]
Apple has announced it will take a big step in helping combat the housing crisis in California. The tech giant revealed a $2.5 billion plan to help ease the housing and affordability crisis in the state, a problem that many believe it helped cause by drawing more workers to California. With the increasing number of […]
In July a bunch of dome-like concept homes designed by Kanye West and his team appeared in Calabasas. These houses were reportedly created to bust up the class system within the increasingly pricey housing market, and they were also reportedly prototypes spread across 300 acres of West’s land. Unfortunately for Kanye, it was reported that […]
Nearly five decades after its premiere, Sesame Street will confront the issue of homelessness with its first-ever homeless Muppet. Sesame Workshop announced the addition Wednesday, confirming the storyline will revolve around the bright pink character of Lily. The Muppet was introduced in 2011, when she revealed her family’s struggle with food-scarcity. We get a closer look at Lily’s circumstances […]
